Design Themes
Philosophical Viewpoints: Existentialism
This theme seems like a heavy-hitter, what with the big "ism" and all, but existentialism really boils down to a school of thought based on the idea of existence itself—not existence in our minds...
Fate and Free Will
We're big on freedom, sure, but everything has its limits. For thousands of years, humans have taken comfort in the idea that, while we might make our own choices, someone or something is still in...
Fear
"Design" isn't a ghost story. Really nothing all that awful happens. A spider gets ready to eat a moth. It's the circle of life—get over it. But the philosophical argument that Frost develops beg...
The Supernatural
In "Design" there's a lot of supernatural stuff going on. We've got the big guns of the supernatural world: God and the cosmic forces that control our lives. But we also have the small potatoes of...